Key Findings for Database Professionals from the Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2019

The Accelerate: State of DevOps Report 2019 has just been published. This report is the latest in six years of research. With more than 31,000 survey responses, Accelerate is the longest running study of DevOps in academia or industry.

In the 2019 edition, research continues to show that DevOps drives business value: high performers at DevOps are “twice as likely to meet or exceed their organizational goals.” While this isn’t a new finding, it’s very important that this continues to be true: why invest in improving at DevOps if it doesn’t drive business value?

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Next Door to Derpton - When Your Fellow DBA is a Danger to Databases (Dear SQL DBA)

What do you do when your fellow DBA is a ticking time-bomb of bad decisions, waiting to explode your production environment?

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Bleeding In Edgeville - When Upgrades Come Too Fast (Dear SQL DBA)

In this episode of “Dear SQL DBA,” I answer a question about early adoption of SQL Server, discuss why testing in production isn’t necessarily crazy, and recommend how to handle requests to upgrade your SQL Server to use new features.

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Required Testing for Installing SQL Server Cumulative Updates and Service Packs

Microsoft recently updated their policies and recommendations for installing cumulative updates.

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Change Management Template for SQL Server DBAs and Developers

I learned to do Change Management from some really smart people. When I first became a DBA, I worked at a small software company where changes were released with increasing frequency over the years. Our team was really great at planning and deploying changes, because we constantly worked at improving.

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Training Plan for Junior DBAs Learning SQL Server

You’re just getting started as a SQL Server Database Administrator – or you’re trying to get there.

Here’s a learning plan and links to free articles and scripts that will equip you to tackle the three most critical skills to for DBAs.

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